Cooler



Jan. 26 1926a 1,571,100

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Patented Jan. 26, 1926.

a}: li A sir EMERSON EHOCEI SKIETNEPJ,

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Application filed May 7,

T 0 oil whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, EMEnsoN ENocH SKINNER, a citizen of the UnitedStates, residing at Elgin, in the county of Antelope and State ofNebraska, have invented a new and useful Cooler, of which the followingis a specification.

This invention aims to provide a simple means whereby provisions and thelike may be cooled in a cellar or vbasement, and be raised to a conrenient position in an apartment above the cellar or basement, thedevice comprising a carrier, a portion of which remains in the upperapartment to serve as a container for articles which do not need to becooled. A further object of the invention is to provide novel meanswhereby the carrier may be counterpoised, raised and lowered.

It is within the province of the disclosure to improve generally and toenhance the utility of devices of that sort to which the inventionappertains.

Although a preferred form of the invention has been shown in thedrawings, it will be understood that a mechanic, working within thescope of what is claimed, may make changes without departing from thespirit of the invention or placing the,

utility of the device in jeopardy.

In the drawings :Figure 1 shows, in elevation, a device constructed inaccordance with the invention; Figure 2 is a horizontal section takenthrough the cabinet and at tendant parts; Figure 3 is an elevationshowing the guiding means for the flexible elements whereon the carrieris mounted for vertical movement from the position shown in Figure 4 tothe position shown in Figure 1; Figure 4 is a vertical section whereinthe carrier is shown raised; Figure 5 is a horizontal section showingthe guiding means for the vertically moving carrier; Figure 6 is a crosssection showing the means whereby the flexible elements which supportthe vertically movable carrier are connected thereto; Figure 7 is avertical section wherein the carrier has been raised, as in Figure 4,parts appearing in elevation; Figure 8 is a sectional view supplementalto Figure 6; Figure 9 is a vertical section showing how the flexibleelements are connected to the counterpoise weights.

The numeral 1 marks the wall of a building, the floor appearing at 2 andforming an apartment or room 43, above the floor,

1924. Serial No. 711,707.

and a cellar or basement below the floor, the ground being shown at 4and forming the bottom of the cellar 3. There is an opening 5 in thefloor 2, and the soil bottom 4 of the cellar may be excavated to fashiona pit 6.

A cabinet 7 is located in the cellar 3, about the opening in the floor 2and may be carried by the floor, although this detail is not insistedupon, the height of the cabiuet determining whether it is supported onthe cellar bottom 4 or suspended from the floor 2 as shown in Figure 1.The cabinet 7 has a front door 8 and may be equipped in its bottom witha drain 9. Channelshaped guides 1.0 are located in the cabinet 7 andextend between the bottom of the cabinet and the floor 2. The cabinet 7may be equipped, for the sake of ventilation, with an air conduit 11controlled by a damper 12. The numeral 14 designates a water pipe havingan inlet end 15 and an outlet end 16, the water pipe being formed into acoil 17 located. in the pit 6. As shown at 18, the pit 6 may be filledwholly or in part with earth, as shown at 18 in Figure 1, althoughwhether or not the pit is to be filled, is left to the discretion of thebuilder. The pipe 14 embodies a coil 19 located in the cabinet 7, at theback thereof.

The device embodies a vertically movable carrier 20, including an uppermember 21, preferably made of wood and conforming in finish to the woodtrim of the apartment 43. Any desired number of drawers 22 slidehorizontally in the upper member 21 of the carrier, and are providedwith handles 23. A lower member 24, of metal if desired, is securedwithin and to the lower end of the upper member 21, as shown at 44 inFigure 4. The lower member 24 of the carrier 20 has a plurality ofshelves 25 and is openedat the front. A horizontal slide 26 is securedto the back of the upper member 21 of the carrier 20 andincludes a head27 slidable in a two-part vertical guide 28, mounted on the walll, theconstituent members of the guide being held together by securingelements 29. Channel-shaped riders 30 are secured to the sides of thelower member 24 of the carrier 20 and reciprocate in the verticalchannel-shaped guides 10 which are located in the cabinet 7. Adjacent totheir upper ends, the guides 10 have openings 31 receiving pulleys 32 onshafts 33 carried by brackets 34 on the guides 10. About the pulleys 32,flexible elements 35, such as chains, are rove. The flexible elements 35extend through openings 36 formed in the riders 30 of the carrier 20,pins 37, or other fasteners, being engaged with the flexible elementsand with the riders 30, as shown in Figure 8, to anchor the flexibleelements at one end upon the carrier 20. Weight boxes 38 slide betweenthe guides and the ends of the cabinet 7, as disclosed in Figure 2, andhave guide ways 39 affording a slidable mounting for the weight boxes onthe guides. The weight boxes are adapted to receive wet sand or anyother heavy material, and in this way, the eihciency of the weightboxes, as a counterpoise for the carrier and its contents, may beadjusted. Anchor boxes are mounted in the weight boxes 38 between theinner walls of the guide ways 39 and the outer walls of the weightboxes, the anchor blocks 40 serving to stiffen the guide ways 39 and toreinforce them for sliding engagement with the guides 10. Figure 9 showsthat there are recesses 41 in the upper ends of the anchor blocks 40,the flexible elements extending into the recesses and being held thereinby securing elements 42 mounted in the guide ways 39 and in the blocksand held against movement toward the left in Figure 9 by the guides 10.

The. water passing through the pipe 14 is cooled by the coil 17 in thepit 6 and, passing through the coil 19, cools the cabinet 7, it beingpossible to draw cool water from the outlet end 16 of the water pipe byany suitable plumbing arrangement of faucets and the like, forming nopart of the present application. I

lVhen the carrier 20 is lowered, as shown in Figure 1, the lower member24 of the carrier is located in the cabinet 7, and the articles on theshelves 25 are cooled from the coil 19, it being possible to open thedoor 8, should it be desired to place something on the shelves 25, fromthe cellar 3. When the carrier 20 is lowered as aforesaid, the uppermember 21 of the cabinet remains above the floor 2, and the drawers 22may be used to contain provisions which do not need to be cooled, thecontents of the drawers being always accessible without raising thecarrier 20' The handles 28 on the drawers 22 may be used to raise thecarrier 20 into the position shown in Figures i and 7 whereupon thecontents of the shelves 25 may be removed by a person in the upperapartment 43. The carrier 20 may be slid downwardly from the position ofFigure 4 to the position of Figure 1, to dispose the lower member 24 ofthe carrier again in the cooling cabinet 7 The weights 38 of courseoffsetthe weight of the carrier 20 and its contents, and since theweights are in the form of boxes, a proper counterpoise may be effectedbetween the weights and the carrier 20.

I claim 1. The combination with the floor of a building, of a cabinetlocated therebelow, means for cooling the cabinet, a carrier slidablethrough the floor to dispose the lower end of the carrier in and out ofthe cabinet, the upper end of the carrier being located above the floorwhen the lower end of the carrier is moved downwardly to the limit intothe cabinet, and means for supporting and counterpoising the carrier.

2. The combination with the floor of a building, of a cabinet locatedtherebelow, means for cooling the cabinet, guide bars in the cabinet, aweight positively interengaged with each guide bar for sliding movementtherealong, a carrier movable through the floor and interengagedpositively with both guide bars for sliding movement therealong,flexible elements connected at their ends to the weights and to thecarrier, and means for guiding the intermediate portions of the flexibleelements.

3.. The combination with the floor of a building, of a cabinet locatedtherebelow,

means for cooling the cabinet, guides in the cabinet, hollow weightboxes having guide ways receiving the guides, reinforcing blocks locatedbetween the guide ways and the walls of the boxes, acarrier slidable onthe aforesaid guides, through the floor, into and out of the cabinet,flexible elements connected to the blocks and to the carrier, and meansfor guiding the intermediate portions of the flexible elements. 7

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own, I have hereto affixedmy signature.

EMERSON ENOOH SKINNER.

